Cheese merchant wholesalers · Colorado

Cheese Importers

Longmont, CO · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheese Importers runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cheese Importers: 5.2 TCR = 237% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheese Importers safety composite

Cheese Importers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Cheese Importers: 3.8 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Cheese Importers's TCR rose 9.4 from 3.8 in 2019 to 13.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Longmont, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 237% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Masters Gallery Food…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheese Importers in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Cheese Importers averages 5.2 TCR (237% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Cheese Importers TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=5.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=13.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Cheese Importers falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Colorado.

Cheese Importers (36 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cheese Importers
Cheese Importers (36 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Cheese Importers has fewer employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 13.3 3.3 4 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · CO · Longmont

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 182 employers in Longmont, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - Plymouth 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Carrollton 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Side Jersey Dairy - Bismarck Distribution 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - LEMARS IA 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC- Eckley 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Tech Wireline Services, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volumetrics Measurement 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Limon Wind Plant 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longmont, CO 1,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longmont United Hospital 638 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-05500001-055001 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longs Peak Hospital 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Runnings of Pierre 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pella Corporation Macomb Operations 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sportsmans Concrete, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cavendish Farms 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builder's Electric Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvest at Mendosa's 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 8024 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tracy Grading and Paving Inc. 36 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.